latest · all topics

• 2026-11-02

  2 stories · run ok

  • Howard Hughes flies the wooden H-4 Hercules flying boat on its only flight
  • The Aviationist explains why radomes so often wore a different color from the airframe

• 2026-11-01

  5 stories · run ok

  • Giulio Gavotti drops hand grenades from an Etrich Taube in the first aerial bombing
  • Paul-René Fonck downs a Halberstadt for his 75th and final confirmed victory
  • Vintage Aviation News traces Schweizer from a family barn to the Ag Cat and 300 helicopter

• 2026-10-31

  6 stories · run degraded

  • Budd's stainless-steel RB-1 Conestoga cargo plane makes its first flight
  • Air and Space Museum opens its At Home in Space gallery on the Mall
  • Volunteers plan to dismantle Nimrod XV232 and truck it from Coventry to Manston

• 2026-10-30

  7 stories · run ok

  • Deptula's Desert Storm target map will open the Gulf War section of the new military gallery
  • South Pacific WWII Museum recovers B-17E Yankee Doodle Jr. wreckage after more than 80 years
  • Eddie Rickenbacker downs a balloon for his 26th and final victory of the war

• 2026-10-29

  4 stories · run ok

  • California Science Center unveils its Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, Endeavour's new home
  • Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum tops out its new hangar at former MCAS El Toro
  • Canadair's CT-114 Tutor jet trainer enters Royal Canadian Air Force service

• 2026-10-28

  5 stories · run degraded

  • Air and Space Museum opens its last two galleries, completing the Mall renovation
  • North American's FJ-4 Fury, a rewinged Navy descendant of the Sabre, first flies
  • Caldwell Collection grows to 36 aircraft and rebuilds a saved WWII hangar in Oklahoma

• 2026-10-27

  7 stories · run ok

  • The combat F-117A "Overachiever" goes on public display at the Udvar-Hazy Center
  • William Barker fights a Fokker formation alone in a Sopwith Snipe and earns the Victoria Cross
  • CIA restores the Mi-17 that carried its first team into Afghanistan after 9/11

• 2026-10-26

  5 stories · run ok

  • North American's NA-73X prototype flies, beginning the P-51 Mustang's career
  • Henry Farman flies a Voisin biplane 771 meters to win the Archdeacon Cup
  • EAA's Wright Brothers banquet will honor the Collings Foundation's 1941 PBY-5A Catalina

• 2026-10-25

  8 stories · run ok

  • Japan's first kamikaze unit strikes U.S. escort carriers off Leyte, sinking St. Lo
  • Air Force Reserve delivers the combat F-117A 'Overachiever' to the Udvar-Hazy Center
  • McDonnell Douglas rolls out the 5,057th and last F-4 Phantom II